I've no idea if the ship in this photo is a Maltese Tanker or not - actually I seriously doubt it was flagged in Malta and I'm not at all sure it was a tanker either. I just felt it was a good title.
Here's another image of the roof detail on this Chinese Temple in Georgetown, Penang. Again we have figures in some form of scene or story. The structure behind them looks to be some form of elaborate ship. At right is the prow and in the middle appears to be a sail. I'm left wondering if these were pre-assembled before being mounted on the roof or if they were constructed in-situ.
Taken from the lookout on the eastern part of the island, the ship is beached on the sandy isthmus that joins the two parts of the island. The water here was really shallow - the two people on the right of the image are actually sitting down at this point, not standing. The varying depths of the water and the light ripples of the breeze driven waves are refracting the sunlight to give the rainbow effect of this image.
The image below was taken a few minutes after yesterday's shot with the sun bisected on the horizon. The film stock was Fuji Provia 100 ISO. I'm not sure if the film now 23 years old, is suffering from aging or original reciprocity failure.
At 3:00 am on the morning of November 16, 1982, the crew of the Meisho Maru No. 38 issued an emergency call for help. Their ship had run aground about 1.5 km west of Cape Agulhas, the most southerly point in Africa.
The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in Houston.